Husbandman is a term used in England in the medieval and early modern period for a free tenant farmer. The social status of a husbandman was below that of a yeoman.
The earliest recorded use of the term dates from the 14th century.[1] The sense of husband in this term is that of the "master of house" rather than "married man".
References
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, 1989
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